Filed under: Comic Strips

The Seattle Times reports that due to economic and revenue conditions it’s reducing the number of sections it prints from four to three on various days of the week. As a result they are discontinuing Lio, Candorville and On a Claire Day.In announcements earlier in the month (and the end of November): The Journal Times […]

» Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles will be playing with his band “Suspicious Package” next Monday and Tuesday. The band plays mostly rock covers.» Atlanta Journal Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich was interviewed by Huffington Post and again laments that cartooning the Obama presidency might be tough if he ends up liking the guy. Funny, […]

Nickelodeon Magazine is recognizing their readers favorite comics by creating a Comics award to honor the best comic book, strips and graphic novels. The categories related to comic strips include: Cutest Comic Character: Snoopy (from Peanuts), Bartleby (from Bone), Super Diaper Baby (from Super Diaper Baby) and Manny (from Diary of a Wimpy Kid); Favorite […]

Next week’s Mutts will delve into politics – or at least the topic of President-Elect Barack Obama’s choice for first pet. In his election night victory speech, Obama promised his daughters that they “have earned the new puppy that’s coming with [them] to the White House.” The story-line runs all week with Mooch and Earl […]

Uclick has announced that Brooke McEldowney’s Pibgorn and Scott Meyer’s webcomic Basic Instructions have been released for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Fans of Pibgorn can download three installments of “Mozart and the Demon Lover” – a time-swap story-line “in which Pibgorn and Geoff trade places in time with Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart and Anna Gottleib. […]

I’m sure Sandra Bell-Lundy wasn’t the first to pen a multi-part narrative of her journey to become a syndicated cartoonist, but recently several others have offered up their stories as well. First we have John Hambrock with his feature The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. Part 1, 2 and 3 The creation of an early […]

Gasoline Alley turns 90 today. The feature, created by Frank King, was first published in 1918 and is often cited as the first comic to age its characters. In an effort to attract more female readers to the Chicago Tribune, the editor asked Frank to introduce a baby – which posed a problem as the […]

The K Chronicles creator Keith Knight spoke at the University of Arizona last night to help put to rest the controversy that erupted after the student paper inadvertently ran one of his cartoons in which one of the comic characters twice used the n-word the day after the presidential election. Keith explained the told the […]

In addition to Universal’s Garfield countdown package, United Media is offering its annual Peanuts Christmas Countdown package to its subscribers at no charge. The syndicate has offered this package for decades and runs through the shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas and also comes in color or black and white.Tis the season!

Keith Knight will be on the campus of Arizona State University tonight to give a presentation of his work and discuss the cartoon using the “n-word” that created a controversy on campus. The event is sponsored by Associated Students of the University of Arizona, the Dean of Students Office and UA chapter of the Society […]

Universal Press Syndicate is offering newspapers that subscribe to Jim Davis’ Garfield a Garfield Christmas Countdown at no additional cost. The special series begins this Saturday (Nov. 23) and includes one panel a day that runs through Dec. 25th. The series is available in black and white as well as color.

Mark Tatulli’s Heart of the City is celebrating its 10th anniversary on November 22. The strip is centered on a city girl named Heart and her child-age trials and tribulations. Some of the storylines in “Heart” that Mark has received the most reader feedback from include his April 16, 2004, strip in which Heart gets […]

King Features officially launches its Comics Kingdom product today. Comics Kingdom is a new web application that newspapers can embed on their site and provides their readers with access to King Feature’s portfolio of 60+ strips. It also allows the newspapers to sell advertising to accompany the comic page. The premise behind this new type […]

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has written an article in today’s Stars and Stripes to rebut critics of his strip and his “anti-military” positions. Lately, however, I’ve been struck by the unusually harsh tone taken by some of your writers. I can only guess that they are either occasional readers who have no context for judging […]